Leandi Borgheresi

Today was a good day. Firstly because it was followed by yesterday(to state the obvious), when I had found out that I got a semester mark of 80% for one module!! After failing an entire semester last year, I feel like a little bragging is in order(I still remember the day I went onto the online web system last year to check my final results. I was with some friends at Mugg and Bean and my friend next to me gasped when she saw I had failed every subject!I was not very impressed with myself either). I think the last time I saw 80% was in my first year of varsity! I actually worked pretty darn hard on this last project. Secondly, because yesterday I had the best run that I've had since last year, and this time I didn't have any stiffness in my legs or pain in my feet! Watch out or I'm gonna be fitter than YOU soon!hehe So if you have had a conversation with me recently, you would know that I want to become a jogger, so that eventually I want to run in races! I want to have a j...

So as you can see I have "revamped" my blogg. Above is my new background picture. I have recently seen a friend of mine's blogg and absolutely loved it!! It's a friend whom I haven't seen for years and we were never very close, but I have just loved reading her blogg and seeing all the things she posts on it about her life now. I realised that I actually didn't know much about blogging especially with regards to designing and adding links. So here goes. The start is to give my page a revamp and see what other tools this site has available for me to use. I have lots of time this year to figure it out and then hopefully next year I will have less time and more to share on whats happening in my life. Soon I shall share all the confirmations God has given me about going back to Pretoria. Before I made the decision of where to go, I asked God to continually confirm to me where I must be. I had no specific desire or wisdom of where to go, and ever since rehab my mo...

So the end of this year is drawing near and I must make a definite decision of where I want to be next year, Pretoria or Bahrain. I have changed my mind as often as I've changed my facebook status, which to me, is quite often! There are many reasons for this, some of which I will share in this post. Pretoria, or South-Africa, is a place where I have had, definitely, some of my best memories in life, mainly because of the friends I made and people who I have come to know there, BUT it is also the place where I have had some of my worst times i.e. last year. One thing that SA represents to me is insecurity. It is there that I have not only had to be independent and on my own but also the place where I have experienced "fear" in such a real, almost evil, way. The one factor I dread of living in SA again, without my family, is the crime that I must face being there. It is something which I almost forgot about the last year, living in Bahrain. And of course another one is the...

I have recently realised how we cannot convince others of what we believe by arguing a point to them and think that they will supernaturally take it to heart. It is only God who can take the veil from people's eyes so that they see the truth: 2 Timothy 2:23-26 "23Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. 24And the Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. 25Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, 26and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will." 1 Thessalonians 1:4-6 "4For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, 5because our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction. You know how we lived among...

I have recently wondered what the effect and even motive is of secular artists/producers, who use/produce Christian works yet who's lives do not reflect the fruits of the Spirit. Is there any value or harm done? I think specifically of the show American Idol, where contestants sang the song "Shout to the Lord". This song is one of the most well known worship songs and was written in one of the most well known churches, Hillsong. I don't know whether their motives were real or not but one thing is for sure, if the Holy Spirit is in a person's life then the fruit of the Spirit will be there too, which are: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Matt 7:16 "You shall know them by their fruit..".not talking specifically about the singers.. BUT no doubt that through them the Gospel is made known! It is this verse that I keep getting back to: Phillipians 1:15-18 "It is true that some preach Christ out of...